Human Rights Under Siege.
The Seventh Annual Report of CIHRS:MENA Region at the Mercy of Autocratic Regimes, Militias, and Religious Extremists Enabled by the International Community’s Complicity
For the full report please visit http://www.cihrs.org/?page_id=19193
“Violent, extremist groups in the Middle East have ...

The 24th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council) came to an end last Friday, September 27, 2013. Although many Arab and international civil society groups – including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) – ...

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention on the situation of human rights in Sudan to the UN Human Rights Council Yesterday, 25 September 2013. The intervention comes as part of the deliberations of the ...

Today, Monday, 9 September 2013, marks the beginning of the twenty-fourth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council) in Geneva. The session is scheduled to continue until 27 September 2013.
As part of the activities of this session, ...

To our African Leaders
On the eve of the next African Union (AU) meeting on the Sudans, we appeal to you to do all you can to end the violence and restore peace to the people of Southern Kordofan and Blue ...

To Permanent Representatives of all member states of the UN Human Rights Council
RE: Addressing the situation of human rights in Sudan at the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council
Excellency,
The undersigned organizations are writing to urge your delegation to ...

Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir is expected to arrive in Cairo today, 16 September 2012, in his first visit to Egypt since the election of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies denounces the decision by the ...

To: Foreign Ministers of Members of the African Union
Your Excellency,
As nongovernmental organizations working to promote human rights at the United Nations Human Rights Council, we are deeply concerned by the recent decision of the African Group in New York to endorse ...

Citizens from South Sudan and Sudan have today been joined by human rights activists, civil society organisations and faith leaders from around the world in a united call for peace within and between the two countries. The global campaign – We ...